PedestrianError

So much talk about the price of gasoline, so little talk about breaking the US's uniquely severe addiction to it.

Good, let Elon and the dogebros clean out the cruise ship instead of working class people.

https://www.jezebel.com/hantavirus-infections-pandemic-spreading-research-canceled-trump-administration-nih-treatment-transmission

Happy May Day/mini-general strike everyone. I hope tomorrow helps a lot of us start some better/less consumptive habits that make it harder for oligarchs to oligarch in the long run. I'm going to get off the internet now - even mastodon.

It should not even need to be said that calling to "86" a politician most likely means impeaching or recalling them or voting them out. When a restaurant "86"es the grilled salmon, they don't go out and kill a bunch of salmon, they just remove it from the menu. One might even "86" the salmon because you've gone vegan and decided to stop killing animals to serve them to your customers.

Janet Mills wanted to retire, not become a senator. Chuck Schumer thought she should run anyway because old + centrist = "electable". Loyal, obedient Democrats of the small donor upper-middle class donated millions to the DSCC & other establishment organizations to fund her campaign. She flushed it all down the toilet on purpose. I guess at least maybe it was a gender-neutral toilet?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mills-veto-data-center-moratorium

Sounds a lot like something pretty common that a lot of working class people have been dealing with since about 2020. If only there was a name for it that people weren't afraid to say...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/19/emma-raducanu-withdraws-madrid-open-tennis

@PrivacyDigest@mas.to That's a bit like employees of a fossil fuel company suddenly questioning their employer's commitment to the environment.

Just another one of those far left terrorists that justify billions of dollars worth of law enforcement and spying, done largely by people who are openly white & male supremacists.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/alleged-white-supremacist-pleads-guilty-fire-social-justice-center-rcna331639

Almost everyone on the island agrees on what the speed limit should be, but a provincial traffic engineer in a sprawl hell office park says no, they have to let a bunch of tourists come to the island on the new car ferry and wreck their cars or hurt people or animals before the world's least imaginative profession can even consider lowering it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/big-tancook-island-residents-urge-speed-limit-reduction-before-new-car-ferry-service-starts-9.7148169

Oh good, once again the mansplainer mansplained that actually he wasn't mansplaining, made more accusations that I was the ignorant one, and blocked me before I could reply. Male socialization does not make people easy to communicate with. Congrats to all the cis men who have done the difficult work of learning to communicate with humility, respect, and effort to actually listen and understand.

@W6KME@mastodon.radio Since you responded to a comment rather than the post with the link to the article, I think it was fair to assume that you were responding to the comment rather than critiquing the article itself. It came off as dismissive. Maybe take a moment to consider how your post might land within a thread rather than doubling down when you cause offense by telling other people how to read your posts without an understanding of the social context within which they read them?

@VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online If you're a mayor and the motorists of your city and (especially) its suburbs aren't mad at you, you're a horseshit mayor.

@angiebaby@mas.to I don't want to hear about capital or carceral punishment. I just want to hear about disabusing them of their ill-gotten money and redistributing it to those who need it and to doing whatever we still can to mitigate the effects of the ecological collapse they've caused.

@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz @RockBottom@feddit.org Keep your old bikes in good working order, they'll probably start requiring tracking devices on new ones soon.